Colorblind Justice
The fundamental crisis in black America is twofold: too much poverty and too
Little self-love. The urgent problem of black poverty is primarily due to the distribution of wealth power and income, a distribution influenced by the racial caste system that denied opportunities to most qualified black people until two decades ago.
The historic role of American progressives is to promote redistributive measure that enhances the standard of living and quality of life for the have-nots and have-too-littles. Affirmative action was one such redistributive measure that surfaced in the heat of battle in the 1960s among those fighting for racial equality. Like earlier de facto affirmative action measures in the American past, contracts, jobs and loans to select immigrants granted by political machines, subsidies to certain farmers, FHA mortgage loans to specific home buyers, or GI Bill benefits to particular courageous Americans, recent efforts to broaden......
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